We suffer without all the extra. We don't suffer more, but we suffer without all the ways that we have. ... We might be able to take suffering as kind of a broad umbrella term, a term that encompasses within it many kind of component parts, or different aspects of this particular aspect of human experience, suffering ... and the different translations give us different perspectives on it. ...
If you go back to the Buddha's teachings, he didn't have just one explanation. ... The ones that usually are taught is the Four Noble truths of the Buddha.
Dukha is an adjective, not a noun ... maybe the core meaning is pain, or painfulness, and then that pain is almost like a metaphor for all the kinds of sufferings human beings can have ... it's a big ouch.
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